Metallic felly



(No Model.)

G. D. HAWORTH,

METALLIC FELLY.

No. 319,410. Patented'June 2, 1885.

AVVORT H UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`GEORGE D. HAWORTH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

METALLIC FELLY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,410, dated June 2, 1885.

Application nica Maron o, isst. (No maar.)

T0 all whom, t may oon/cern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE D. HAWORTH, a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Fellics, of which the following is a specification.

The Object of my invention is to provide a remedy for rim-hound wheels, and to produce a met-allic felly of uniform strength and rigidity throughout.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specication, Figure l represents a longitudinal vertical section Of aportion of an iron felly constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents an end of a section of a felly with a dowel-pin,V attached. Fig. 3 represents an end of a section of a felly provided with a suitable slot to receive the dowelpin shown in Fig. 2. Figmi is a view of the interior surface of a portion of a felly, illustrating the receptacle for the end of a spoke. Fig. 5 is a plan of the elastic washer, and Fig. 6 is a crosssection of the same.

a represents sections of the fell y.

b are spoke-hearings.

c are spokes.

dare intervening ledges on the conjoining I are enlarged receptacles in spokeloearings b.

The sides of slot 7c fit closely over the dowel- 4o pin and effectually prevent lateral displacement. The eXtreme projection of the dowelpin rests on the inner surface of a section,and combines with crossbar h and surface c', to form a truly circular felly of uniform strength and rigidity throughout. The coinciding ledges d may be readily removed to an extent sufficient to remedy rim-loinding, either by using a saw while the wheel is integral, or by detaching the sections and cutting away the superfluous portion.

- I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A means of providing in metallic fellies a remedy for rim-bound wheels consisting in diminished intervening and coinciding ledges On the conjoining ends Of the felly-sections, substantially as described.

2. The means herein set forth for forming an iron felly of uniform strength and rigidity throughout, consisting in the combination, with conjoining ends of different sections of the felly, of a dowel-pin rigid on an end of a section, and having its extreme projection resting on the inner surface of the concavity of the'oppositc section, and a cross-har on the end of the opposite section, provided with a slot adapted to receive the dowel-pin and ef fectually prevent either centripetal or lateral displacement therein.

GEORGE -D. HAVORTH. Attest:

THEO. COLEMAN, THEO. NELSON. 

